We are blessed with a tremendous wild bird population here. Christine maintains a feeding station just outside the front, while your eating breakfast its almost like we have an avery outside the window. I apologise for poor quality of pictures - all taken through windows!

Here are some of our rarer visiters.

Red Legged Partridge

Rare in western Scotland

Nuthatch

Rare in western Scotland Unique because it goes down trees head first!

Sparrow Hawk

Rare in gardens - but we have lots of sparrows and it feeds here regularly

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

Greater Spotted Woodpecker

We love to see woody - usually early in the morning

Goldfinch

Goldfinch

Shy and beautiful, Dont they just love niger seed!

Greenfinch

Always difficult to focus - they move so fast

Pheasant

Christine doing her Dr Doolittle impersination

Swans

Bit of a cheat this one. Photo taken 5 minutes walk away

Belted Galloways

Another cheat. Photo taken about a mile away